* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "The Crossing", John Reese and his FriendOnTheForce Joss Carter have to flee an open bounty placed on them by HR, an organisation of corrupt police. In "4C", Reese has to protect the [[VictimOfTheWeek Number]] from killers sent by Mossad, TheCartel and [[EvilCounterpart his former employers]] the Intelligence Support Agency.

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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "The Crossing", John Reese and his FriendOnTheForce Joss Carter have to flee an open bounty placed on them by HR, an organisation of corrupt police. In "4C", Reese has to protect the [[VictimOfTheWeek Number]] battle five assassins from three different organisations (Mossad, TheCartel and his former employers in the US government) who are trying to kill the VictimOfTheWeek in four separate ways.

killers sent by Mossad, TheCartel and [[EvilCounterpart his former employers]] the Intelligence Support Agency.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "The Crossing", John Reese and his FriendOnTheForce Joss Carter have to flee an open bounty placed on them by HR, an organisation of corrupt police. In "4C", Reese has to protect the [[VictimOfTheWeek Number]] from killers sent by Mossad, TheCartel and [[EvilCounterpart his former employers]] the Intelligence Support Agency.

* ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'': In the Season 3 episode "Clamorous Night", [[DragonAscendant Roman]] puts a hit on the FBI team. The only specifically unique assassin in the group is one who likes using poisons; the rest stick to good old-fashioned guns and knives.

* Unusually used in the "Black Seal" episode of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' where its the [[''VillainProtagonist protagonist'']] who assembles a team of the biggest bastards in all of England (including himself, naturally) to carry out a fiendish plan. [[spoiler: They all turn on him in favor of an even BIGGER bastard by the end of the episode.]]

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* Unusually used in the "Black Seal" episode of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' where its the [[''VillainProtagonist protagonist'']] [[VillainProtagonist ''protagonist'']] who assembles a team of the biggest bastards in all of England (including himself, naturally) to carry out a fiendish plan. [[spoiler: They all turn on him in favor of an even BIGGER bastard by the end of the episode.]]

* Inverted in the "Black Seal" episode of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' when the ''protagonist'' assembles a team of the biggest bastards in all of England (including himself, naturally) to carry out a fiendish plan. [[spoiler: They all turn on him in favor of an even BIGGER bastard by the end of the episode.]]

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* Inverted Unusually used in the "Black Seal" episode of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' when where its the ''protagonist'' [[''VillainProtagonist protagonist'']] who assembles a team of the biggest bastards in all of England (including himself, naturally) to carry out a fiendish plan. [[spoiler: They all turn on him in favor of an even BIGGER bastard by the end of the episode.]]

A Carnival of Killers occurs when a villain either hires the best assassins from around the world and sends them after the hero, or offers an open bounty on the hero's head that attracts a variety of assassins. A typical Carnival of Killers will involve a large collection of assassins with radically different styles (e.g. a ColdSniper, a KnifeNut, a MadBomber, etc), and sometimes will include last season villains that have since fallen below the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil's current threshold. Sometimes one of the assassins will decide the best way to win the bounty is to take out the competition before taking out the hero.

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A Carnival of Killers occurs when a villain either hires the best assassins from around the world and sends them after the hero, or offers puts out an open bounty contract on the hero's head that attracts a variety of assassins. A typical Carnival of Killers will involve a large collection of assassins with radically different styles (e.g. a ColdSniper, a KnifeNut, a MadBomber, etc), and sometimes will include last season villains that have since fallen below the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil's current threshold. Sometimes one of the assassins will decide the best way to win the bounty is to take out the competition before taking out the hero.

* In ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfTheMachineGunWoman'', gang lord Che Longana puts a bounty of 300 million pesos on the head of the Machine Gun Woman, which attracts all kinds of killers; from common street thugs to elite hit men.

A Carnival of Killers occurs when a villain either hires the best assassins from around the world and sends them after the hero, or offers an open bounty on the hero's head that attracts a variety of assassins. A typical Carnival Of Killers will involve a large collection of assassins with radically different styles (e.g. a ColdSniper, a KnifeNut, a MadBomber, etc), and sometimes will include last season villains that have since fallen below the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil's current threshold. Sometimes one of the assassins will decide the best way to win the bounty is to take out the competition before taking out the hero.

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A Carnival of Killers occurs when a villain either hires the best assassins from around the world and sends them after the hero, or offers an open bounty on the hero's head that attracts a variety of assassins. A typical Carnival Of of Killers will involve a large collection of assassins with radically different styles (e.g. a ColdSniper, a KnifeNut, a MadBomber, etc), and sometimes will include last season villains that have since fallen below the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil's current threshold. Sometimes one of the assassins will decide the best way to win the bounty is to take out the competition before taking out the hero.

** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]] contains its own variant, where the group of assassins are all from a mafia family that the protagonists ''also belong to''. The heroes want to overthrow the boss and create a [[TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily nicer mafia]], but they're tasked with guarding the boss' daughter who becomes a target for everyone else. While the villains mostly belonging to a single Italian gang means less variety in certain aspects, the villains still showcase a wide variety of approaches and designs.

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